Album Notes

Els Segons Temps / The Second Times - By Darian Stavans.

Jaime Narvaez - Guitar.


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Inside the knowledge , ... the road.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


CD Els Segons Temps / The Second Times is an extremely personal music proposal of the author. Back origins and the conflict for disarm and resolve emotional corners, leaded him to transform those background tones into delightful music. One would suppose that the CD title talks about second chances but indeed it doesn't. Also the fact that the name is in Catalan doesn't mean anything else that a good friendship of the artist. What really matters in this musical CD is the virtuosity to put into music sounds, strong life forcefulness, but removing from it the facts and acts extracting the funding of the inspirational sources and leaving written just delightful music. Extraordinary performed by guitarist Jaime Narvaez who achieved to endure his interpretation conceived in the base of this musical origin. Listening to it and becoming acquainted with it's power, this music has such a beauty, that it is an album you will come back to, again and again.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST


Evocative is a word that has been used to describe, or better said, react to the music of Darian Stavans. Evocative? One would imagine that such a music would bring to the mind and heart shared memories, but one does not necessarily share memories with an artist; one shares feelings, reflections, dreams. These are the things one finds in the music of Darian Stavans— a passage of sorts to that special place we all have deep in our souls.

The apparent simplicity of works such as Interiors, Passion, and Poetic is powerfully touching and intensely beautiful. Captivating melodies hold our attention as their notes drop ever deeper into the soul of the listener, retrieving echoes of the human experience we all share. Our lives may be different, but our feelings are not. Stavans’ music glides us soothingly into currents of profoundly romantic reverie, pools of sunlit serenity, and occasionally into the depths of fleeting melancholy.

Stavans, the composer, imbues his music with texture: a guitar lends its sometimes earthy, sometimes airy quality to Els Segons Temps; whereas a lighter, more translucent harp is used to render Lullabies. In making his music come alive, Stavans has also become a producer (he produced all the works featured here) and a conductor. He conducted and recorded the St. Angelis Symphony Orchestra for his works Noir et Blanc and Prayer.

Nonetheless, Darian Stavans is first and foremost a gifted composer and pianist. His music speaks his soul and in so doing, speaks to our own. Perhaps listening to his works we might become acquainted with the artist, but it would be more accurate to say, we become reacquainted with ourselves.

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A native of Ajalvir, a small town close to Madrid Spain, Jaime Narvaez received his musical training in Bilbao from Eduardo Zozaya and Manolo Férez.
Living today in Toledo Spain, he has held a professorship at Toledo School of Music since 1988, and since 1989 has served as Guitar Player at the same school. International recognition was established in 1990 when he won the Tercer Premio de la Guitarra Española, and has grown through his recording career with over five recordings. Jaime Narvaez performs frequently in major international halls and concert festivals. He conducts master classes in interpretation of XX century guitar music.

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